Browned Pixie-cup Lichen

Appearance

Primary thallus: Squamulose, persistent, forming large cushions

Squamules: 3-6 mm long, 2-5 mm wide, entire to irregularly crenate-lobed to irregularly digitate lobed

Podetia: scarce to common, 14-55 mm tall, greenish gray, cup-bearing

Cups: 2-9 mm wide, entire or with blunt to finger-like proliferations along margins, often simple and without proliferations but infrequently bearing one to three tiers of proliferations from center surface: smoothly corticate, squamulose or esquamulose, esorediate, slightly arachnoid in young parts

Apothecia: Uncommon, up to 3.5 mm diam, dark brown

Distribution

Northern Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America

Habitat

On soil or over duf